1897 32' Gaff Cutter

32'6" Cornish gaff Cutter

Year:

1897

Length:

33'

Engine/Fuel Type:

Single / diesel

Located In:

Cornwall, United Kingdom

Hull Material:

Wood

YW#:

49830-2997855

Current Price:

£ 29,500 (US$ 37,126)

Built by Kittow of Porthleven, probably as a Plymouth Hooker and converted to a yacht sometime before WWII. Major refit in present ownership including lots of new planking and re-fastening plus new rigging. Deep safe cockpit with a bridge deck, spacious interior with 2 single berths and a double. Manageable gaff cutter rig, which can be handled by a small crew very easily. An exceptionally pretty boat in sound and smart condition with a long and well documented history

In a letter dated June 1966, G. Sartoris from Ingatstone, Essex, writes that he bought Peggy in 1936 and that he believed she was built by Kittow in Porthleven, Cornwall in the 1890’s.

The yacht has all the signs of a typical Cornish sailing fishing boat of the period known as the Plymouth Hooker because they fished with long lines of baited hooks – a straight stem, slightly raked transom stern, transom-hung rudder and a long keel with a small amount of drag.

Bought by the present owner in 2012, she has undergone a thorough refit which has included a lot of new frames, all new planking in the topsides, re-fastening below the water line, new coachroof, a new cockpit and new standing rigging in 2015. She is now a very eye catching and smart yacht in sound structural condition, proven and a cruise to Brittany in the summer of 2016.

4 berths including a double forward to port and two saloon settee berths.

Interior largely rebuilt in present ownership.

Galley with Taylors paraffin stove and stainless sink.

Heads compartment in the forepeak with a Blakes Victory sea toilet.

Full specification and details available upon request

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The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.